January 2018 Puzzles and Solutions

by Hasslethymi

Across

• 1 Grind over diagram before you start making salsa, perhaps (12)
• 9 Purity in no spoken meaning (9)
• 10 King, queen and a whole set of countries get another performance (5)
• 11 Horrifies friends working for Associated Press (6)
• 12 Change points in broken rafter (8)
• 13 It’s not odd to follow the Spanish team (6)
• 15 Joints where uncle’s getting mixed up with two Ku Klux Klan members (8)
• 17 Suitable primarily for that thing (3)
• 18 Box for madman’s Christmas treat (8)
• 19 One who persists in hanging around? (6)
• 21 Seriously windy on the outskirts of Leatherhead after an uneventful start (8)
• 23 Stuffs the last of her inside ornaments (6)
• 26 Enthusiasm evident in riots’ ugly return (5)
• 27 It shows stylish despot is lacking time (9)
• 28 Others having not so much head movement (12)

Down

• • 1/18 Pound missing from redesigned metallic coins - it’s a worrying global situation (7,6)
• 2 Allow private parking to surround university (3,2)
• 3 Dead battery found by Hospital Department A1 (9)
• 4 Galling to lose 3-5 to another team (4)
• 5 Deviant to live in gross accommodation (8)
• 6 Superman, maybe? No, it’s a bird! (5)
• 7 Paintings entirely composed with skill (8)
• 8 Caught up in perverse ransom traps (6)
• 14 Elton covers rock singer is to revive (8)
• 15 Tackle last part of task with computer know-how (3)
• 16 Number of eye problems falls (9)
• 17 Fat little bird eats fifty at breakneck speed (4,4)
• 18 See 1
• 20 Once again, organises holiday accommodation (7)
• 22 Discussed the risk to stop this ultimately returning (5)
• 24 Wriggle endlessly to get slim (5)
• 25 Lied about being lazy (4)